A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A silver pencil case, obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said that they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation. The item is shown in the drawing by Edward Pulleyn (AAA3972). The item at present has a ring attached to one side, the drawing indicates that it originally had two. John Rae thought that it might be part of a catheter. It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2 December 1854.